KEV DR. TALMAGE, The Brookiyn 2 wines Sauaay Sermon, Subject: “Sailing Up the Nilo,” Made It."—Ezskiel xxix. 0. Aha! This 1s the River Nile, A brown or Yoiow or silver cord on waich are hung more jewels of thriliiug interest than on any river that was ever twisted in the sunshine. It ripples through the vook of Ezskiel, and flashes in the books of Deuterono ny and isaiah and Zecharia an i Nahum, and on its banks stood the mighties of many ages. It was the crystal cradle of Moses, and on its banks, Mary, the reiuzee, carried toe inians Jesus, To find the birthplace of this river was the fascination aod defeat of expedis $ions without number, Not many years ago Bayard Tavior, our [oat American traveler, wrote, “Since Coe prabus first loaked upon San Salvador, thea earth has but one emotion o for her bestowal, and that she bim who shall tirst drink of the White Nile un Kilima-Njare.” But sources of the Nile by £1 il traumpa jet reserves rom the founains Ar Boe snow tie, as the discovery of most for of the Pe Hue Wiis Cole red an impos-ibiiity, The malarias, tae wild beasts, the savages, the unciimable #toeps, the vast distances, stopped all tue ex- peditions for aces, An intelligent pative said to Sir Samuel W. Baker and wife as they were on tueir way to accomplish that in which others had failed: “Give up the mad scaeme of the Nile source. How would it be possible for a lady ourg and delicate to endure what would ill the strongest man? Giveit up” But the work went on until Speke and Grant and Baker found the two lakes which are the source of what was calied the Wh te Nile, and baptized these two lakes with the nawes of Victoria and Albert. These two lakes @led vy great rainfalls and by accumulated fuows [rom the mountains, pour thew waters, laden wita agricultural wealth such as blessos no other river, on down over the Sataracts, on between frowning mountains sn between cities living and cities dead, on for four thousand miles and through a con~ fnent, But the White Nile would do Egypt if this were all, It would banks and Egypt would remain a But from Abyssinia there salled the Blue Nile, which, thouzh drv or pearly dry half the year, under tremendous rains about the middle of June rises to great momentum, and this Blue Nile dashes sudden influx into the White Nile, which in sonseqnance rises thirty feet and their © sined waters inun ;ypt with a rich soll which drops on ali the fieids and ® is conducted by dit and Mmoals every whith The greatest dan Egzvpt came by t Nile, and the greate ful and abuncan seph's time came fr the nundation irom th ile # drought: too Magsue, The riv uotbers of ils a Fuision of nature th wn N little for keep its desert, Comes wat 18 iate gar lens as hes siuices and that ever came to arying up of the River lessing by its hoaithe lhe famine in Jo 16 ack of Not en Nile fre he earth axen ir TON - Burope, « we ting re shall ar wninens ver of all But befor aie a look at A yy Alexander the Sew York, worid, Temp oR, lens, pillared and off wotural and Ele fpollos, the lestament t iad s rival to St. Paul, liv Her i ihe author ti iid book of the | Festament, expired under Nero's anathema. | From here the ship smiled that leit Pa: he crew struggling in the breake Melita, Pompey's pillar is here, about or sundred feet igh, its base surrounded oy 0 puch flith and squalor I was glad to escape | mto an air that was breathable. » But Alexandria, fascipating for this or that thing, according to the taste of the vis | dor, was to me most entertaining because it | aad been the site of the greatest library | hat the world ever saw, considering the | laot that the art of Jrigting had not beon | mvented, 1 Yi BY 8 MARL the ¢ : of eGo i Seven bundred thousand volumes | sod all the work of a slow pen. Put down #t all went un ler the torch of beseigers Bulit again and destroyed again. Hailt again, but the Arabs cams along for its 8nal demolition and the {our thousand baths | sf the city were heated with those volumes, the {ue ny six ouths, and were fires kinlled at fearful What holocausts of » world's literature! What mariyrdom of How many ol them bave gone down under the rage of nations Only one LOGE Gas to withstand the bombariment, and that has gone through + * er | such coat? at DOORS, Lear ao with OF SD8Ar Or muss armed New Testa Testament. Yet ids ~ YO Awor its defense An un An unarmed Ug invulperable and tri pmohant 1 bere must be something supe natural about t. Conqueror of boa Monarch of books! All the books of all ‘he ages in all the libraries outshone by this one book which you and I carry to church in a pocket. So methought amid the ashes of Alexandrian Rbraries, i But all aboard the Egyptian rail train | going up the bans of the Nile! Loox out it 8 re on ite at for Len for the imposition of their load. And think we might take from them a lesson, and, instead of trying to stand upright in our own streu rth, become conwsious of our weakness and need of divine help before we take upon us the heavy duties of the year or the week or the day, and so kneel for the burden. We meet processions of men and beasts on the way from their day's work, but alas, for the homes to which the poor inhabitants are going, for the most part bovels of mud. But there is something in she scene that thoroughly enlists wus, It is the noveity of wretchedness and a scene of picturesque rags. For thousands of years this land has been under a very damnation to taxes. Nothing but Christian civilization will roll back the influences which are “spoiling the Egyptians.” There are gar dens and palaces, but they beiong to the rulers, This ride along the Nile is bane of the most solemn and impressive rides of all my life tains of the night fall upon all surround. ings. But we shall not be satisfied until we can take a ship and pas rigat out upon these wondrous waters and between the bunks crowned with the story of empires. According to the lead pencil mark in my Bible it was Thanksgivieg day mornin November 29, 1890, at with my family and frisuds we stapped aboard the steamer on the Nile. The Mobammedan call ers had Deen sounded by the priests of pt the Muezzine, from the four hundred mosques of Cairo as the cry went out “God ix great. 1 bear witness that tie is no Cod but God that Moham ned is the | not much of a craft that we boarded, It would not be hailed on any of our rivers with any rapture of admiration. It foriu- nately had buat littls speed, for twos we raa around and the saoors ju aned ints toe water and on their saoulders puso her ous, But woat vacat of gayest sportsman, woat deck of swi test ooeaa g 1een could give su a thrill of ravture asa sail on tas Nile?! Tae pyramids in sigat, toe remaius of cities tuas are now oniy a name, the villages taronged with popumtion, Both banks crowde | with historical deeds of tortv or sixty centuries Oh, what a book the Bible is when read on the Nile! : As we slowly move up the majestic river I see on each bank the wh els, the pumps. tas buckets for irrigation, and s¢8 a min with his foot on the trea lle of a wheel that fetch a uo the water {or a garden, and then for the first time [I uniderstani that passage ia Deuteronomy waica says of ths Israelites {ter they had got cack from Egypt, “ihe Inn wattiior thou goest in to possess it is no { vob fron wasnle ns the lan lol BE sonNedst tay seal out, whe thou wateredst it with thy [oot.,” Then I un esuld bs watered now the land tha ioohk How 0 vou sunpose [ felt the deck o. that on the looked off upon tae canals ani ditcass and tarouza whiea t fialls are irre gated by that river, and thea reat in Isaia *{'he bur iy 18 river saall wasted and driel up, and thay shal vara t rive (Ar away ant Lae Hrookd of de enee shall be emptied and driel up; and they shall be bro Profesor Frank H, Bigelow nent astronomer, sald to have com- puted, by a very complicated process of | calculation, the exsct period of the sun's | revolution on its axis. He makes it | twenty-seven days, nine hours, fifty-two | minutes and Afty-iwo seconds theemis a o—— i o— | The study of the passage comet thro gh the Pleiades has been | Interesting. Stars lylog beyond the jcomet were quite plainly visible { through the tail of the comet, showing ithe absence of solid matter in the comet, of Wolf's ———— In Oldenburg, a Tall temperature from thirty-seven degrees above zero to twenty-two degrees below is reported to have oconrred in twenty minutes on No- vember 18. 1°90, A heavy rain pre- | ceded the change. Some th'riy Kirg- { hires, who were returning to Oidenbu g, were drenched with the rain, then frozen on thelr horses, of a e—— Dr. Giraud’s 1ecent experiments in France in the transformation of the thermie energy of combustion into elec. trical energy, and the consequent gener- ation of heat. have resulted in the coon- struction of a stove which may possibly, when modiflad and perfected, come to revolutionize our present modes of heat. | ing dwelling-houses, t aI The enormous mass of exira dead ! weight, due to the carrying of the boil- § i i | ive, will be entirely unnecessary in the | railways of the future, which will be propelled electrically, Unquestionably a motor on every axle, or, alt ay rate, upon two axles of each car, and every car runing as a unit, 10 which case they can run coupled together in a train or not, as may be convealent, A singular tion of electricity is reported from Halifax, Nova Scotia. It appears that the number of sentinels in the garrison has been reduosd near- ly one-half It was found work could be more promptiy done by | electric bells. The bells are attached to | sen ry boxes, and connected with the guard-rooms, so that the sending in of an alarm to the guard from the sentry is accomplished instantaneously. ———— Expersments made in America with the cottonwood show that the increase in the girth of the tree is made only during a week or two about midsum- mer. It is believed to be the rul © with most American fast-growing deciduous trees, Experiment on con trees, recently made in Scotiond by Mr, David Christison, show opposite re sults. There is a retardation of growth at midsummer, and a rather rapid io crease just before and just afier that time. 1%, Christ's Praver for His Disciples. LESBON TEXT. (John 17 : 1-19. Mémory verses, 17-18, | | LESSON PLAN. i Tom : Son of God, OF THE QUARTER Jesus the Gorpex Texr von tar QUARTER: | These are written, that ye might be. i lieve that Jesus in the Christ, of God: and that belie ing ye m ght have life through ar Jonn 20 : 31 the San June, 1.9 on Toru trig Jor fii Son Interced #8 (hen sors Glory ors t : Work ssir's Plea, ex He every ‘ liveth ta intercession for them. Heb, (i0oL1 snake : 2D. lrADIN 19. Dairy Hour M John 17 : 1- terceding. Jolin 17 terceding. John 11 the grave, John 12 the temple. F.—1a 22; the garden. Bom. 8 Christ's intercess on Heb. 7 : 14-28. Eternal inter CERRIONn The Son 7 The Bon i : 20-26. i 32-46. Praying TP Praving 1k 39-46, Praying 8. 31-3 Jenefits BS. Criority Glory as o he begotten from the Father (John 1 Being therefore r the right hand of God exalted (Acts 2 Thon ist him bonor {Heb. 2 i Crowne with glory $ Glory of f with thee the Word was with on’ (John 10: 30 ore the foundation 4 world (John 17 : 24). 1. THE INTERCESSOR'S WORK. iI. Manifesting God I manifested thy name (6). I will declare thy name unto my breth- ron (Psa. 22 The only begotten Son clared bim ‘John 1 : IR I made known unto them thy name John 17 : 26 $3 hath de- ii. Convicting Men hey believed that thou didst send me (8). Thou art the living God ( Matt Thon art a teacher John 17 : 25. Christ, the Son of the 16 : 16). Coe from Go 111. Keaping Believers I regardetl them, and not one them perished (} No « ne shall 3 1 Lal d (Jol 14 snatch hn 10 : 28°, Holy Father, keep them in thy name {John 17 : 11 Of those whom thou : lost not one (John (1K hast given me 1 Yi Joy: These things I speak may have my joy (13. | Fnter thou into (Matt, 25 : 23). IV. Bestowing that they 15: 11). Lord Jesus { Rom. 5 : 11). Vv. Commissioning Workers: Even so send I them into the world L (18). | And as ye go, preach (Matt. 10: 7), | (Go ye therefore, and make disciples (Matt, 28 : 19). | send I you (John 20: 21), | fl. THR INTERCESSOR'S PLEA, i i. For his People: | 1pray....for those whom thou hast given me (9). Ask of me, and I will give thee the na- tions (Pea. 2: R). | But | made supplication for thee (Luke 22 : 32). Neither for these only do | pray (John 17 : 20). tl. For their Safety: Holy Father, keep them in thy name (11). fle keepeth all his bones (Psa. 34 : 20), He tint keepeth theo will not slumber {Pan : 3) Who... sre guarded through faith (1 Pet. 1: 5). iil, For thair Unity: That they may be one, even as we sre (11). herd (John 10 : 16). We, who are many, sre Christ (Bom. 12 : 5). all one man (Gal, 8 one body in in Christ Jesus 2h) That thou shouldest keep them from the evil one (15). Deliver us {rom the evil one (Matt. 6 ; 14) Deliver us out oi! this present evil world (Gal, 1 45. I'he evil one toucheth D185). V.Far their Sar ctification. Banctify them in the trath (17), For their sakes I sanctify myself (John 17 : 19). That he i him not (1 John might sanctify if, cleansed it (Eph hh : 26), That is the will of God, even sanctification (1 Thess, 4 : 3 ‘“(3lorify thy Son, glorify thee.” rifi ation of the 2; i's glorifies ion of the Father, Bon's prayer; (2 The Son's pur- having your ¥ £TRe i Son may Father's The that the 1} The { : glorify Bon; (2 Verse 2.—*To them eternal life.” (1) The gift; (3) The recipients; ditions, Verse 6.— “Thine they were, and thon gavest them to me.” (1) Goa's owner ship 1n man; (2) God's gift of men. —(1) God: (2) Man; (3) The Son. Verse 8.—* They believed that thon didst send me.’ 1} Beat of the Father; (2) Acoepted of the disciples. Verse 0.— “They are thine,” God's o« nership of the saints Its busis; (2) Ist results, Verse 11 NAME Keep he should give Giver; (2) The (4) The con- i “Keep them in 1} From what? (2 what? (3) For what? (4) By what? Verse 12.1 guarded th m, and not one of them perished.” (1) The guard- ing Saviour: (2; The saved b:liever Verse 14. — “Tue world hated them, because they are not of the world.” (1 A mad fact: (2) A sufficient reason Verse 16. —**They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Christ's sctual nuworld iness; (2) The believer's ideal unworldliness, Verse 19. —* For their sakes I sanctify myself Christ's personal work; (2) Christ s distinet purpose. thy In rE LESSON BIBLE READING He then + will return express Bays, i ford then tr bulati { them, victory mao him ain wr and Pra As the preceding lesson, pither in the upper room at Jerusalem, or on the way to Gethsemane. Tux. In the evening of Thursday, the 14th of Nisan, A. U. C. 7583; that 1s, April 6, A. D. 30 Persons, —Jesus and the ciples. AxAvLysIs, The whole chapter is called the high-priestly prayer of Jesus The lesson includes two of its main parts, the firet (va. 1-5) giving promi- nence to his own work as glorifying the the second (vs. 6-18) being argely petition for the disciples There is no parallel passage n IH eleven die- - How a Conviet is Searched, George Kennan writes in Century: ~+4You have no said Captain Nikolin, “how unscrupulous they are, and how much criminal skill they show in concealing forb ngs and in smuggling letters and out of prison Suppose ti were going to search a convict as thor oughly as poseibie, how would you do it? I replied that a, aden into il vi political I should strip him +f his clothing “ls that all vou would do?’ be in. I said that no other course of pro cedure suggested itself to me just af «Would yon look in his ears?” “No.” 1 answered: “I should not think of looking in his ears.” “Would you search his mouth?” Again 1 replied in the negative. «Would vou look in a hollow tooth? 1 solemnly declare that such a thing ter would never, under any ciresm- stances, have occurred to me. “Well,” he said triumphantly, «I writh on it ontof a prisoner's month, a once | found a dose of deadly poison hallow tooth. Ah